Unraveling the Electronic Structure of Photocatalytic Manganese Complexes by L-Edge X-ray Spectroscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 33, 2015, Pages 19192-19200

  Bokarev, Sergey I ^a   Khan, Munirah ^b   Abdel Latif, Mahmoud K ^c   Xiao, Jie ^b   Hilal, Rifaat ^d   Aziz, Saadullah G ^d   Aziz, Emad F ^b   Kühn, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c Beni Suef University   (Egypt)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELECTROOXIDATION; INELASTIC SCATTERING; MANGANESE; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); WATER ABSORPTION; X RAY ABSORPTION;

EXCITED ELECTRONIC STATE; MANGANESE COMPLEXES; OXIDATION STATE; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; REDOX EVOLUTION; RESONANT INELASTIC SCATTERING; SPECTROSCOPIC FEATURES; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS;

X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84939816709     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b05169     Document Type: Article

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